John Tobias, Phillip Hester, Evan Dorkin and Howard Bender were among the pencilers for the series.
Marvel UK published a magazine-sized comic for 193 issues[14] that also spawned 4 annuals[15] and 10 specials.
Each issue contained three to four comic stories, a prose story alternating from a regular tale to one narrated by Winston Zeddemore, a prose entry of Egon Spengler’s Spirit Guide typically discussing the entities in the comic, a bio of a character or ghost that appeared in the series, and a short Slimer strip.
The comics featured a rotating line-up of creators, including John Carnell, Dan Abnett, Andy Lanning, Brian Williamson, Anthony Williams, Stuart Place, Richard Starkings, and Helen Stone.
Outside of the ongoing title, the Ghostbusters were also featured in the 30 issue[22][23][24] run of The Marvel Bumper Comic.
An anthology style comic that was published by Marvel UK from 1988–1989, and that featured strips adapting different characters and properties.
Set six months on from the Gozer incident (in this universe having occurred in 2004) the series was designed to follow the Ghostbusters as their initial fame faded and they returned to the regular chore of busting ghosts on a daily basis.
The series sees the team run ragged as a spate of supernatural crimes and other related occurrences plague the city.
[27] Originally planned for a June 2004 release to coincide with the 20th Anniversary of the movie, the ongoing series of the comic was to officially start in the Summer of 2004 with three known stories.
The following synopses have been collected from the official site: Due to the varying problems with finance and publishing, Sebastien Clavet announced that the ongoing Ghostbusters series would be going into indefinite hiatus with three issues planned and three covers released.
[28][29][30] In early 2005 Sebastien Clavet announced the official trade collection of the series which would include a coloured version of The Zeddemore Factor one shot, concept art, 'Ecto-Logs', a foreword by Ghostbusters creator Dan Aykroyd and a proposed afterword by an as yet unknown actor related to the film.
This trade would have been a hardcover collection that was supposed to be released via a Diamond Comic Distributors "Previews" exclusive.
Posts entered onto the Weaver Hall forum on January 17 reference Clavet's intent to offer the hardcover to fans via the 88MPH Studios online store.
Presently, a version of the Legion Trade in Soft Cover has been released for commercial purchase, however it lacks the foreword by Aykroyd and the concept art.
[33] Tokyopop published a one-shot[34] black and white Manga comic in 2008 called Ghostbusters: Ghost Busted.
Includes the following; The Other Side, Displaced Aggression, Tainted Love, Con-Volution, What in Samhain Just Happened?
This miniseries formed the framing device of a large zombie-themed crossover storyline event that featured several of the IDW-licensed properties such as G.I.
A one-shot comic published in January 2013, written by Erik Burnham with art by Jose Holder, featuring a crossover between the cartoon versions of the Ghostbusters and Mars Attacks.
[54] This one-shot written by Erik Burnham with art by Salvador Navarro (published January 2014), was issue #2 of a six-issue series combining several of the IDW licenses with The X-Files property.
[55] This 4-issue miniseries by Erik Burnham, Tom Waltz, Dan Schoening, and Luis Antonio Delgado (published between October 2014 and January 2015) has the team having an in-continuity crossover/teamup with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
[56] The miniseries was collected in a single volume in April 2015,[57] and a special "Director's Cut" version of issue #1 featuring bonus materials and creator commentary was released.
This annual featured multiple short stories involving the various characters in the Ghostbusters universe.
[59] The series was collected as a trade paperback in December and again as part of the Ghostbusters: Interdimensional Cross-Rip hardcover in September 2017.
These one-shots explored established story lines from their licensed properties that had an alternate outcome much in the vein of Marvel's What-If comics.
In this issue it focuses on what happens had the Ghostbusters not crossed the streams to defeat Gozer at the end of the 1984 film.
In April 2018, IDW began publishing an 8 issue miniseries featuring all the various Ghostbusters teams crossing over in an epic event.
A five-issue miniseries was published beginning in June 2019, again written by Erik Burnham with art by Dan Schoening and Luis Antonio Delgado.
[68] From September 2011 through December 2012, IDW published an ongoing series that ran 16 issues, written by Erik Burnham with art by Dan Schoening and Luis Antonio Delgado.
[76] They reprinted the series as a two volume trade in June 2016,[77] and again as part of the Ghostbusters: Interdimensional Cross-Rip hardcover in September 2017.
Dark Horse Comics published Ghostbusters: Back in Town from March through June 2024.